may be frustrated and fed up by the president s tweets and some of his public rifs looking for a more professional atmosphere here at the white house that he has been grant at least some significant authority to make some big changes already in this west wing. apparently so. all right. peter, stay with us. we re going to continue this discussion with you as it happens. katy terr is with me. you just spoke to anthony scaramucci today. yeah, i did. i spoke to him around i guess ten o clock this morning and i asked him was he going to work under and report to john kelly, and he said he was willing to do that. he would be happy to do that, that he, quote, would do anything for him, him being donald trump, because he loved him and he would do whatever he needed him to do in this role. and then he quickly dungd into that cabinet meeting and said he would talk to me a little bit later this arch. that being said, i mean, you know anthony scaramucci, i know him. i did certainly miss the ent
breaking news, nbc news well, never mind. that s ali s velshi s voice. katy terr is actually going to stay with me for a little bit while we continue the breaking news out of the white house. anthony scaramucci is out as white house communications director after just ten days on the job. the news, katy brought us just a few minutes ago, came just a few days after scaramucci gave a profanty laced tirade of an interview to the new yorker in which he went after reince priebus and steve bannon. we re expecting president trump to award the medal of honor to an army medic who served in the vietnam war in just a few minutes. this medic will become the fist person to seef the nation s highest military honor from president trump. you re looking at pictures of that right now. that s the crowd gathered for that. the reason this is important is because normally sometime in the two o clock hour or 1:30 you get
the white house daily briefing when that s supposed to happen. that has now been delayed to 3:45. there s john kelly right there. many of us are wondering why it had been delayed, and part of that may be because this news about anthony scaramucci is going to be discussed. so we ve got a very, very busy hour for you, but let s start with nbc s peered alexander, who is in the white house press briefing room where we re going to get that briefing very shortly. peter, this is news that has developed in the last ten minutes or so. yeah. that s right. i was upstairs behind me behind the closed doors on the west wing outside of what remains sean spicer s office where we know some of the communications team is now gathered as they prepare to at release some sort of formal statement about anthony scaramucci s dpor tour. it s striking as we talk about what the headline should be for this white house which is the awarding to a medal of honor to a medic who fought nearly 350 years ago. instead i
the white house and the answer was well, he s in the white house. to which some reporters said i m in the white house but i don t work in the white house. we don t even know he s been there it s been ten days since he took that podium and was named to that role and he said, hey, listen, i m going to serve the president in any way i can. and he batted around with the press and said he was going to reset things and introduced sarah huckabee sanders as the new press secretary officially. but again, anthony scaramucci, the up official official communications director only in name only in that will role for ten days, that s got to set a record, ali. i ve got to say, i came into my job a little more softly. the first few days you lerp how the computers work and all that. we are going to go toe our white house crew shortly to get some reporting on what happened here, because the question is anthony scaramucci we re not sure. if did he leave? was he dismissed by john kelly? let s g
that s what donald trump s children appreciated about him. they thought they were going to get a real fighter, somebody with attitude to come in and say, listen, this guy is doing a good job. they liked most of his appear ants. it s just that he went a little too far, a nice way of saying it, when he started talking so freely about what was going on internally within the white house. so the white house has just put out a press statement from the office of the press secretary that is sarah huckabee sanders, anthony senior scaramucci will be leaving his role as communications director. a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. we wish him all the best. that s remarkable short, but very similar language to what sean spicer used when leaving. stephanie, are you there? no, i don t have stephanie yet. i do need to talk to stephanie about how the deal that anthony scaramucci was making to sell his company, sky bridge capital,